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today who came to join us for the hearing and thank them for joining us. our shareholders will benefit from improved financial stability and $1 billion of synergy create bid merger. we are proud that the combination has won support from the 100,000 employees of financial markets and the communities we serve. the u.s. airways team has been a leader in delivering customer service. we have long recognized we can do more. airline passengers made it clear what they want are broader networks capable of taking them whenever they want to travel whenever they want to go. i beginning the system of american airlines and u.s. airways it will build the networking arc passengers want. one that will compete with the networking of delta and northwest and the low cost carriers like jetblue and southwest. the passenger benefit. new american airlines stem from the complimentary naimp. by beginning these we add origin, destination, and hubs to a networking with very little route dip indication. indeed out of the nearly 900 domestic routes whether he serve american airlines an
today who came to join us for the hearing and thank them for joining us. our shareholders will benefit from improved financial stability and $1 billion of synergy create bid merger. we are proud that the combination has won support from the 100,000 employees of financial markets and the communities we serve. the u.s. airways team has been a leader in delivering customer service. we have long recognized we can do more. airline passengers made it clear what they want are broader networks capable...
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on behalf of all of us, we apologize for the fact that you were waiting on us. we had votes, and it's unavoidable. so the subcommittee on immigration and border security will come to order. without objection, the chair's authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time, and again, we welcome all of our witnesses in the interest of time and because you have been waiting on us, i am going to make my statement part of the record so we can get to your testimony quicker. and with that, i am going the to recognize the ranking member, the gentlelady from california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will also make my statement part of the record and simply note that e-verify can only work if we reform the immigration system, otherwise we're just finding out howdies functional it really is -- how dysfunctional it really is. also i am concerned about the r record rate. i know we're making great improvements, but if there's a massive expansion, we're talking potentially over 100,000 americans who might lose a job and need a remedy. and i'm hoping the committee can
on behalf of all of us, we apologize for the fact that you were waiting on us. we had votes, and it's unavoidable. so the subcommittee on immigration and border security will come to order. without objection, the chair's authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time, and again, we welcome all of our witnesses in the interest of time and because you have been waiting on us, i am going to make my statement part of the record so we can get to your testimony quicker. and with that, i...
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rather than divide us, it should unite us. as a look over this tremendous crowd, ic unity among all of you. i see unity among all of you. in south dakota we have a special term, we just called them issues. i was very fortunate to spend 30 years on these issues in congress, attempting to put rural america's agenda on the national agenda. and almost every day i left the senate, since i left the senate i'm reminded that agricultural issues, food security issues don't stop, as tom said just now so powerfully, at the prairies edge. these are national issues. they are global issues. today, farming and food security are beginning to receive the attention they deserve. president obama has launched a new alliance for food security and nutrition with the goal of raising 50 million sub-saharan africans out of poverty over the next decade alone. city kids are going back to work. their grand parents ranches, farmers are having their own -- their own online dating service. and the most talked about super bowl commercial, courtesy of the lat
rather than divide us, it should unite us. as a look over this tremendous crowd, ic unity among all of you. i see unity among all of you. in south dakota we have a special term, we just called them issues. i was very fortunate to spend 30 years on these issues in congress, attempting to put rural america's agenda on the national agenda. and almost every day i left the senate, since i left the senate i'm reminded that agricultural issues, food security issues don't stop, as tom said just now so...
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so who is using them? me? you, then you become anybody who's got a little talk is using those babies, and they suck 1 trillion plus out of the treasury just like that every year. >> given what you're saying about the constituency for those, do you believe tax form this year is possible? >> yeah, i think that max baucus and david kamp are working. as ours can says, to try to do something. and they know what to do. but the heat is on. i mean, you know, tax reform, mess around with mortgage interest deduction or earned income tax credit, blue cross blue shield, oil and gas, i mean, play the game. 180 of those babies out there, and they are solidly in the grasp of somebody who's going to go to their congressperson, this trip around, maxed out in every primary and do come to them this year and say we have never asked you for a thing. but hell, we are here to ask you -- but we are here to ask you don't let this happen. it took us years to get that into the tax code, and if you let that out, for all we've done for yo
so who is using them? me? you, then you become anybody who's got a little talk is using those babies, and they suck 1 trillion plus out of the treasury just like that every year. >> given what you're saying about the constituency for those, do you believe tax form this year is possible? >> yeah, i think that max baucus and david kamp are working. as ours can says, to try to do something. and they know what to do. but the heat is on. i mean, you know, tax reform, mess around with...
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us to shift into higher gear. our budget is designed to come together and create jobs, and let's not forget, to provide help for the most vulnerable. first and foremost, ohio's taxes are too high, and they are particularly punishing your small businesses. we punish our small businesses with too high of taxes in our state. [applause] >> flat out, end of story. they are the engines of job creation in our state. and let me be clear, this is a comprehensive program to cut taxes by $1.4 billion. i'll talk about a few the specifics. we propose lowering the sales tax from five and a half to 5%. we also propose broadening the base. and in doing so, we will be able to provide a 50% tax cut to our small businesses, a 50% tax cut. for example, if a business has $40,000 worth of income, they will only pay taxes on $20,000. what a shot in the arm. and remember something, these are the people who create nearly 50% of the jobs. you know, when we think about job creation we tend to think about all the big companies, the big opera
us to shift into higher gear. our budget is designed to come together and create jobs, and let's not forget, to provide help for the most vulnerable. first and foremost, ohio's taxes are too high, and they are particularly punishing your small businesses. we punish our small businesses with too high of taxes in our state. [applause] >> flat out, end of story. they are the engines of job creation in our state. and let me be clear, this is a comprehensive program to cut taxes by $1.4...
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he used the wrong word. it was not a deliberate statement of a policy difference with the president. it was literally a slip of the tongue. the same thing of the legitimacy of the iran government. the party was making was, it is an established government. he used the word legitimate not in the sense that it was to the elected and met our standards but was an established government and as the senator indicated to my thinking and irrational reason for taking that position because he was afraid if he took that vote, as senator website command would have been used as a license by the administration to take aggressive action for the nation of iran, so i think that was a national -- rational policy. the final thing i look for when looking to hire somebody's character. and this man has character. mr. chairman, at the beginning of the hearing you used the phrase committee would give the president and cars device with integrity. and that is a very high quality, very have my list. that is what the president needs to m
he used the wrong word. it was not a deliberate statement of a policy difference with the president. it was literally a slip of the tongue. the same thing of the legitimacy of the iran government. the party was making was, it is an established government. he used the word legitimate not in the sense that it was to the elected and met our standards but was an established government and as the senator indicated to my thinking and irrational reason for taking that position because he was afraid if...
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it's not us and them, it's all of us together. and when we make this a priority for the country, so much is possible. i think the challenge with the austerity budgets is that it is coming from this place of scarcity, but i think we all know there's so many ways in which this country is resource-full. and our families are resource-full, and work forces are resource-full. and when we make something a priority, we can make it happen. so this is about bringing together all of these different experiences and interests to make this a national priority. >> mary, so many of the workers we're talking about are immigrant women. um, tell us about some of the challenges and maybe strategies for engaging them keeping in mind that some of them at this moment may not be of legal status and really reluctant. >> i think there's been a really long-held belief that immigrant workers cannot be organized and that they will not take the risk. however, there's a lot of success stories that really challenge that myth among janitors, among construction wo
it's not us and them, it's all of us together. and when we make this a priority for the country, so much is possible. i think the challenge with the austerity budgets is that it is coming from this place of scarcity, but i think we all know there's so many ways in which this country is resource-full. and our families are resource-full, and work forces are resource-full. and when we make something a priority, we can make it happen. so this is about bringing together all of these different...
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we turn the table up in front of us. my mom got down behind us. and the shooting continued. at that time in 91, we weren't seeing these mass shootings that we're seeing now so i was waiting for him to say something like all right, everybody puts her waltz upon the table, or a thought maybe it was a hit. maybe there was somebody important in there. but the shooting continued. i'm going to tell you, it took a good 45 seconds, which is an eternity, to realize that the guy was simply going to walk around, take aim, pull the trigger, go to the next persons, taking, pull the trigger. he was executing people. when i did realize i thought i've got this guy. i reached for my purse that was on the floor next to me, realize i had a perfect place to probably aren't. he was up to everybody else in the restaurant was down. then i realized that if you want to earlier i had made the stupidest decision of my life. i had begun leaving my gun out in the car because i did what most normal people would do. i wanted to be a law-abiding citizen. i didn't want to get caught with a gun and maybe los
we turn the table up in front of us. my mom got down behind us. and the shooting continued. at that time in 91, we weren't seeing these mass shootings that we're seeing now so i was waiting for him to say something like all right, everybody puts her waltz upon the table, or a thought maybe it was a hit. maybe there was somebody important in there. but the shooting continued. i'm going to tell you, it took a good 45 seconds, which is an eternity, to realize that the guy was simply going to walk...
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you said you wanted us to debate. [laughter] i don't think the focus is all change to the medium-term deficit in fact the reason i think it's sort front and center is precisely because it has to be part of the discussion on jobs i do think the president cares deeply about the fact that we still have an unemployment rate just slightly below 80%, that is an unbelievable tragedy. i think realistically if you're going to do more infrastructure spending or you're going to make the kind of investments we need to make in education, that might put people back to work now and make us more productive in the future, the only way you ever get congress to go along with you if you also say let's make this as part of a package to do with all those other long run things. i think it might begin with the medium-term fiscal situations, some sense is making face to do things you need to do now to get more short-term recovery. >> except that -- >> four, anna. >> know, that's good. >> look, to move the needle, if you're pulling the fiscal
you said you wanted us to debate. [laughter] i don't think the focus is all change to the medium-term deficit in fact the reason i think it's sort front and center is precisely because it has to be part of the discussion on jobs i do think the president cares deeply about the fact that we still have an unemployment rate just slightly below 80%, that is an unbelievable tragedy. i think realistically if you're going to do more infrastructure spending or you're going to make the kind of...
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there's some very tough decisions facing us. there's some start fiscal realities facing us. so we can all eat a look at the past and to me kind of rehashed the past and keep using our same talking points, or we can try to figure out how to kind of move forward. you know, on the entitlement reform side, i understand people have concerns but that is the reality we all have to face with. nobody has the perfect into the building is a perfect solution. but that has to be part of the solution that we are working on. we can sit here and splice the date on what's happening with health care expenditures, and you can look up the data trends and see what's happening. again the past couple years health care costs have gone down to look at 2014 and beyond and see what happens with health care costs. they bounce right back at. so we can either kind of bayesian, we're done our job, it's time to move on, or which is okay, there are challenges that lie ahead, we all have our priorities but we have to work together. so let's hold hands and try to figure out a way forward. and it's just, this
there's some very tough decisions facing us. there's some start fiscal realities facing us. so we can all eat a look at the past and to me kind of rehashed the past and keep using our same talking points, or we can try to figure out how to kind of move forward. you know, on the entitlement reform side, i understand people have concerns but that is the reality we all have to face with. nobody has the perfect into the building is a perfect solution. but that has to be part of the solution that we...
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for us. >> i put together a timeline to try to figure out how to have this conversation with you guys. i look at this, and i feel like the month of june turned out to be the most important month of the campaign with you guys on the obama side he does the immigration executive order on the dream act, and then the supreme court decision on health care. and it was a big financial month for you guys. that's when -- so i want to go to all three of those issues. let's start with the health care decision. were you guys planning for a reversal, stuart? were you guys assuming it was going to be overturned? it seems like that day it felt like, to me as an observer, you guys were caught off guard that health care was upheld. >> no. >> no. >> no, i think we had -- >> contingency plans either way. >> yeah. >> yeah, i think we were caught off guard like everybody by the mechanism which it was sustained if mechanism is the right word, the roberts ruling -- >> right. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. >> we had not con
for us. >> i put together a timeline to try to figure out how to have this conversation with you guys. i look at this, and i feel like the month of june turned out to be the most important month of the campaign with you guys on the obama side he does the immigration executive order on the dream act, and then the supreme court decision on health care. and it was a big financial month for you guys. that's when -- so i want to go to all three of those issues. let's start with the health care...
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do you have any number how much that would save us? . .
do you have any number how much that would save us? . .
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data that can be used to provide a household budget for contingency plan. we do have contingency plans in our budgeting process. >> even for disasters that could be expected. >> that's correct. that's a starting point. secondly, we can revisit this criteria for what we decided the federal government to pay for and what not to pay and what should be at the local level. the need of upgrading select could give you better indication for budgeting purposes as well. we need better data on whether that a potential changes, good science data collected and provided to state and local government and the federal government to make investment decisions to justify budgetary investment -- you proper information future. and then there's going to be obviously things are, but you don't expect. but right now are pretending we don't expect anything and that's not reality. >> we do budget expectations and number told the fund has been used up by the most recent hurricane. >> ray. reservations made after his disastrous are in placeg
data that can be used to provide a household budget for contingency plan. we do have contingency plans in our budgeting process. >> even for disasters that could be expected. >> that's correct. that's a starting point. secondly, we can revisit this criteria for what we decided the federal government to pay for and what not to pay and what should be at the local level. the need of upgrading select could give you better indication for budgeting purposes as well. we need better data on...
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gress and understand where america is heading, we have knowledgeable witnesses testifying before us today. each thoroughly understands public and private research development efforts as well as wear our global competitors are headed. members had the opportunity to work them policy to help america stayed competitive and today's hearing is the first step. . .
gress and understand where america is heading, we have knowledgeable witnesses testifying before us today. each thoroughly understands public and private research development efforts as well as wear our global competitors are headed. members had the opportunity to work them policy to help america stayed competitive and today's hearing is the first step. . .
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the challenges of the future could cripple us, undermine us. we could go the way of other great civilizations. but i know that will not happen. i have a deep and abiding faith in america. i know that will not happen because there is a reservoir of strength and persistence allen love and determination. i know that will not happen because america is full of people who understand the principles of those who came before us, that echo in their hearts with the words of martin luther king from a prison cell in april of 1963, when he penned those words, "we are all caught in an inescapable network of individually, tied in a common garment of destiny. we will survive and thrive because we know that we can deal with the true enemy in our midst, which will be always our inability to come together as a people." that is the story of our founding which echoes within our documents, that exists in the pledged that children say, that say we are one nation under god, indivisible. the preamble to our constitution starts with "we, the people of the united states o
the challenges of the future could cripple us, undermine us. we could go the way of other great civilizations. but i know that will not happen. i have a deep and abiding faith in america. i know that will not happen because there is a reservoir of strength and persistence allen love and determination. i know that will not happen because america is full of people who understand the principles of those who came before us, that echo in their hearts with the words of martin luther king from a...
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some sort of medical device that everyone can use in their homes. so then would you have to have a manufacturing and transportation network to not only make the new thing but bring it to lots of different people's houses. can i write that piece when i go back to my office after this panel? and also, if you disagree, what's the next big idea? >> go ahead. >> if you go to the microsoft campus, out in seattle, in redmond and you go look at their smart home, they already are beginning to play with those kind of technologies, right? because you know, what's the inevitable demographic we have in this country? aging. we now know how the bib baby boomers field about themselves. they will demand products. so the question is, in those metropolitan areas that tend to cluster around the mayo clinic, cleveland clinic, houston medical campus. washington university, right? there is where you're going to find that sort of r & d commercializing to prototyping and then the question becomes, if you are talking about mass production here, and some kind of integrated su
some sort of medical device that everyone can use in their homes. so then would you have to have a manufacturing and transportation network to not only make the new thing but bring it to lots of different people's houses. can i write that piece when i go back to my office after this panel? and also, if you disagree, what's the next big idea? >> go ahead. >> if you go to the microsoft campus, out in seattle, in redmond and you go look at their smart home, they already are beginning...
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communities are a strength for us. that bill was passed in 1965. i guarantee you that not one person in 100 who studies the civil rights movement understands that it is a third pillar within the building rights act of 1965 to build a structure that will be not only a great strength, but a great inspiration. it is essential for diversity and we have to learn how to get along with one another. we are unconscious to a lot of these things that are consequences of the freedom set in motion by this movement that struggle for eight years. finally he gets a nobel the nobel prize, and all of his staff says let's do this, and he says no, next week. and then he is back in jail. the mountaintop is nice, but the valley called. we are all blessed by that, but we are unconscious about it. the example of it, the example that i want to give you as to how great i think the disconnect is, is that george wallace made that speech in 1953, and he could not prevent any of these great tides are coming. if you have a daughter and you want your
communities are a strength for us. that bill was passed in 1965. i guarantee you that not one person in 100 who studies the civil rights movement understands that it is a third pillar within the building rights act of 1965 to build a structure that will be not only a great strength, but a great inspiration. it is essential for diversity and we have to learn how to get along with one another. we are unconscious to a lot of these things that are consequences of the freedom set in motion by this...